Literary Master 1978.

Chapter 324 Sales are growing rapidly

At 3 am on March 5, Lin Chaoyang and Lin Erchun arrived at their hometown by train. As soon as they got off the train, they saw a banner with yellow characters on a red background hanging above the exit of the train station.

"Warmly welcome the famous writer Xu Lingjun back to his hometown"

Lin Erchun looked at the banner with excitement. Just as he was about to say something to Lin Chaoyang, he saw several people looking around near the platform. He recognized one of them at a glance as Director Zheng, who had gone to Yanjing a few years ago to invite Lin Chaoyang to return home.

Director Zheng also saw the father and son, said something to the people around him, and several people came over together.

On the busy platform, Director Zheng and his group of six looked very imposing. The passengers who were busy getting on and off the train immediately made way for them.

"Comrade Chaoyang, welcome, welcome!"

"Let me introduce you. This is our county magistrate Liu Xueyi, and this is the county government office..."

Director Zheng had met Lin Chaoyang in Yanjing, so he first introduced Lin Chaoyang to several leaders from the county who came to greet him.

Those who came to greet Lin Chaoyang were mainly people from the county government, including the county magistrate Liu Xueyi, Director Li, member of the county party committee and director of the office, the director of the Cultural Bureau, the director of the Propaganda Bureau and the staff, plus Director Zheng, the deputy director of the Cultural Bureau. There were a total of six people in the group, and the scene looked quite grand.

This group of people surrounded Lin Chaoyang and his son and chatted with them, attracting many passengers on and off the bus to watch.

The young man who had been talking to Lin Erchun on the train was sitting by the window at this time. Seeing this scene, his face was full of surprise. He didn't expect that the person he casually talked to on the train looked so important.

After the two sides shook hands and exchanged greetings for a while, County Magistrate Liu suggested that Lin Chaoyang and his son stay at the county party committee guesthouse first.

Lin Chaoyang was originally invited back by the county this time, so he naturally accepted the county's arrangements.

After they were settled in the guesthouse, the father and son each had a room. Lin Erchun looked around the room curiously.

In terms of hardware conditions, the Overseas Chinese Apartments in Yanjing are definitely better than this, but it was his first time entering the County Party Committee Guesthouse, and he had a sense of sacredness in his heart, so everything he saw was curious.

While the father and son were talking, there was a knock on the door. It turned out to be Director Zheng from the Cultural Bureau.

"Comrade Chaoyang, Uncle Lin, I have been instructed by my superiors to come and discuss arrangements for the next two days with you two."

"You said."

"You two must have been exhausted from the journey. You should take a good rest in the guesthouse during the day. Our county chief has arranged a welcoming banquet in the evening, and the secretary will also come over then..."

The county really attached great importance to Lin Chaoyang's return home this time. They invited people to dinner in the evening. Several members of the two teams in the county who were able to come came, except for the leader who visited Lin Chaoyang when he returned home for the Spring Festival two years ago.

After asking around, I found out that he had been transferred to the district committee.

The next day, Lin Chaoyang took the special car arranged for him by the county - a Yanjing 212, and went to the county high school auditorium to give a speech to the students, enjoying the admiring gazes of the young students.

Before leaving, the high school leaders also asked Lin Chaoyang to help write a calligraphy for the school.

In such an occasion, Lin Chaoyang naturally had no way to refuse. Fortunately, under the influence of Tao's father, he practiced calligraphy from time to time and his calligraphy was quite good.

In the afternoon, the county organized a symposium. In addition to the county leaders and cultural figures, the attendees included a deputy leader of the prefectural party committee and several comrades from the municipal federation of literary and art circles. The deck was fully booked.

Before dinner, the city's daily newspaper arranged a separate interview with Lin Chaoyang.

Another day, the county leaders accompanied Lin Chaoyang to visit Hongqi Commune Middle School.

Lin Chaoyang only has a junior high school education, and he attended Hongqi Middle School. This time he came back, it can be said that he is returning home in glory.

Before leaving, he had to write his name as a routine matter. This time, he did not just write the name of the school as he did in high school. He also added a sentence - it takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to cultivate a person. This immediately made the leaders accompanying him understand his feelings for his hometown school.

The county leaders have already told Lin Chaoyang that the main purpose of inviting him back this time is not only to maintain relationships, but also has a more important purpose.

It was by taking advantage of Lin Chaoyang's return to his hometown that he applied for funds from above to build and renovate the dilapidated school buildings of the county high school and several junior high schools.

Lin Chaoyang naturally didn't say anything about this, but instead felt somewhat relieved.

However, he was still a little unconfident about his influence, but the county leaders told him to relax, saying that as long as he could come back, the matter would be settled.

Under the official arrangement, Lin Chaoyang spent three busy days.

After participating in various government activities, Lin Chaoyang returned to Xiaoyangtun.

Lin Erchun came back with Lin Chaoyang, but after staying in the county party committee guesthouse for one night, he returned to his hometown, Xiaoyangtun.

Yesterday I asked someone to send a message to Lin Chaoyang, asking him to come home as soon as he finished his work.

Lin Chaoyang had no idea what the old man was up to. He took Yanjing 212 back to Xiaoyangtun. Before he even entered the village, he saw a crowd of people gathered near the big locust tree at the entrance of the village.

When the car reached the big locust tree, Lin Chaoyang was about to ask the driver to stop the car, but suddenly a deafening burst of firecrackers scared the driver so much that he stepped on the brakes on the spot.

Then someone came forward to open the car door. Lin Chaoyang immediately recognized that this was the commune secretary whom he had met yesterday. He quickly got out of the car and said something polite.

Before the secretary could reply, the sound of firecrackers stopped and the sound of gongs and drums began again. Until now, Lin Chaoyang still didn't understand that this was a welcome ceremony organized by the commune and the village for him.

In the past two days, he was arranged to visit various places in the county, and there were people lining the streets to welcome him and offering flowers, but this was the first time he had been so down-to-earth.

After the lively party, Lin Chaoyang was surrounded by his fellow villagers and returned home.

After Lin Erchun and his wife went to Yanjing, they entrusted the house and land to relatives. When Lin Chaoyang came back again, nothing had changed here.

Lin Chaoyang is now a distinguished guest in the city and county, and the commune cadres treat him with courtesy and respect.

The leading secretary said, "Comrade Chaoyang is now well-known throughout the country and is the pride of us hometown people. I heard that you had a baby boy two months ago. Now that you are back in your hometown, it is a good time to have a full-month banquet..."

The secretary's reason was very clever, and the wedding banquet was held in Xiaoyangtun, which made Lin Chaoyang unable to refuse.

He privately pulled Lin Erchun together. He knew that the banquet must be paid for by the commune, but he did not want to take advantage of the government, so he asked Lin Erchun to repay the money to the commune afterwards.

The commune's banquet was held in the village office, with eight tables in total, and the cost was quite high.

According to the commune's reception standards, this was considered an exceptional treatment.

The reason why the commune secretary spent so much effort was mainly because Lin Chaoyang's return home brought great benefits to the commune.

The county leaders have promised that once the approval from above comes in, the funds will be allocated to several primary and secondary schools in Hongqi Commune. After all, Hongqi Middle School produced the great writer Lin Chaoyang, and there is also a primary school where Lin Chaoyang once taught.

Seriously speaking, Lin Chaoyang's return home this time can be regarded as a benefit to the hometown.

At the banquet, the commune leaders toasted Lin Erchun again and again. He drank one glass after another under the envious eyes of the villagers, feeling extremely proud, and soon got drunk.

Wine does not intoxicate people, people intoxicate themselves.

Although his son has been famous for several years, Lin Erchun still feels extremely happy and proud to see him return home in glory today.

Lin Chaoyang was a little tired after attending various social events for several days. After seeing off the commune leaders, he wanted to rest in Xiaoyangtun for two days.

But when they heard that this great writer was returning home, villagers from all over the surrounding area wanted to come and watch the fun, just like watching a monkey show.

In desperation, Lin Chaoyang had to move back into the county party committee guesthouse. He buried himself in the county archives every day, looking up county chronicles that were nearly a hundred years old, and returned to his room in the guesthouse at night to sort out the materials.

When Lin Chaoyang disappeared into the county town, the impact of "The Boat Crossing" was still fermenting.

On the surface, "The Crossing" tells a challenging adventure story, but as long as readers finish reading the novel, they will understand that it is much more than that.

Full of legendary adventure stories, the magnificent wonders of nature, the struggle and harmony between man and nature...

Many rich elements make up the novel's wonderful story, but its brilliance goes far beyond that.

The novel's unique narrative structure makes the story more complex. In addition to telling the story of drifting on the sea, it also interspersed the protagonist's growth and changes, and his profound reflections on life, human nature, death and existence.

Behind each layer of story is the author's careful design, making this novel a multi-layered and multi-dimensional magical realism literary work.

After Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature, magical realism literature became widely sought after and welcomed among domestic literature lovers, becoming a fashionable reading material that countless readers rushed to read.

Unfortunately, there are not many Latin American literary works introduced into China today, and even fewer magical realism works.

There are more wolves than meat, and under such circumstances, readers are increasingly attracted to magical realism literature.

The publication of "The Boat Crossing" just happened to coincide with this wave of enthusiasm, and the issue of "Huacheng" that published the novel showed far greater popularity than ever before after it was released.

A week after the magazine was released, ordering information from Xinhua Bookstores across the country was fed back to Huacheng Publishing House.

As a literary bimonthly magazine, the sales of each issue of Huacheng have remained stable at between 600,000 and 700,000 copies for more than a year. The bulk of the sales are concentrated in the first month of the magazine's publication, during which time the magazine can often sell 400,000 to 500,000 copies.

But the first issue of the magazine in 83 was a big surprise: the first print run of copies was sold out in bookstores one week after it was released.

Less than half a month after it was released, the first print run of 700,000 copies of the magazine was completely sold out.

Huacheng Publishing House has never seen such a popular situation since its establishment three years ago, and has adopted a conservative strategy in printing more copies of the magazine, printing hundreds of thousands of copies at a time.

The direct result was that Xinhua Bookstore and the post office would harass the publishing house every few days.

One month after the first issue of the magazine was released in 83, total sales reached 155 million copies, which not only set a sales record for Huacheng magazine since its founding, but also almost dominated the domestic literary journal industry.

In the 1980s, the publishing industry was short of printing paper resources and people were not well off financially. There were often several or even dozens of readers behind a literary magazine.

"Huacheng" sold 155 million copies in one month, reaching millions of readers, which naturally made the influence of "Duzhou Ji" grow day by day.

(End of this chapter)